Zprávy památkové péče 2020, 80(1):3-9 | DOI: 10.56112/zpp.2020.1.02
The research of heritage values of historical towns of the Czech Republic
- 1 Ústav urbanismu FA ČVUT
- 2 Ústav navrhování FA ČVUT
Since 2016, a five-year project entitled Origin and Attributes of Historic Values of Historic Towns of the Czech Republic has been underway in cooperation between the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University and the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences. The result is a reconstruction of geometric relationships arising from the hypothesis of medieval urban surveying, a methodology of identification and protection of phenomena essential for the urban authenticity of heritage towns, maps of attributes of the complex identity of selected urban heritage reservations, and an exhibition summarizing the research together with a critical catalog. Six selected towns were analyzed using complex maps with professional content, and twenty towns were analyzed using location maps with professional content. The research work is organized into sections, subsections, and sheets linked through a basic database. The section Basic Information on the Town contains an initial information base individually describing each town in terms of its historical development, an analysis of its layout, and photo documentation of the environment. The second section Basic Map File contains sets of thematic GIS layers recording significant phenomena, resp. a reconstruction of their appearance in the past. The third section Partial Map Files contains an interpretation of the database and, using the principle of "overlay", shows the quantitative differences in selected phenomena and attributes. The fourth section Algorithmic Analyses applies suitable mathematical models to the structure of towns using a GIS base, demonstrating the transformations of the material and non-material structure of the historical core. The fifth section Expert Analyses contains interpretations of the data based on general methods and theories applied in heritage care and urbanism. The sixth section Evaluation contains a method of evaluating the aforementioned analyses based on an expert and legal framework and shows ways to professionally evaluate individual projects and situations.
Keywords: urbanism, heritage value, historical town, geographic information system (GIS), map file
Published: March 1, 2020 Show citation
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